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Livestreaming court proceedings offers significant potential to enhance open justice and public accessibility.
Conclusion
The power to allow the transmission of proceedings to designated livestreaming premises has great potential to enable more people to observe court proceedings and enhance open justice. If students were able to observe cases in classrooms and lecture halls, or if community centres could host livestreams of court proceedings, the accessibility of court proceedings would be greatly enhanced.
Government Response Summary
The government agrees the power exists through remote observation legislation but has not yet been used; they will explore the appetite for its use in a forthcoming call for evidence.
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Government Response
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HM Government
Acknowledged
98. We agree. This is already possible via the remote observation enabling legislation but is yet to be used in practice.81 We will explore the appetite for this in the aforementioned call for evidence.
Source
Committee
Justice Committee
Report
Fifth Report - Open justice: court reporting in the digital age
01 Nov 2022
HC 339
Addressee Bodies
Ministry of Justice
Timeline
Recommendation age
3.6 yrs
Report published
01 Nov 2022